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NOTE: Movie times (p.m. unless indicated otherwise) are for the week of Friday, September 5, 2008 to Thursday, September 11, 2008
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IN TORONTO: Toronto fest loses democratic nature
The Toronto International Film Festival is no longer the people's festival. Co-founder Dusty Cohl would be appalled. His widow Joan Cohl certainly is.
REVIEW: A simple tale of a complex man
In our cynical world, simplicity is often ridiculed or ignored. Simplicity can be mistaken for simple-minded.
IN TORONTO: A family affair
Paul Gross grew up in a Canadian military family hearing tragic but vivid stories about the First World War from his maternal grandfather.
DVDS: Married Life marvellous
If most summer movies are designed to tease and please, there are always exceptions. We look at the serious side of recent summer fare on DVD.
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Coming Soon
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MOVIES: Dressed for success (Aug. 31, 2008)
This a story about how a skinny little girl became a box-office heavyweight.
MOVIES: Fall fare (Aug. 24, 2008)
Now may be the time to spring those plans for world domination.
MOVIES: Best of the rest (Aug. 24, 2008)
From assassins to porn stars to con men, there are more than just stodgy aspiring Oscar winners populating this fall's film season (although there are those, too).
MOVIES: A Star is reborn (Aug. 10, 2008)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Chicago may have been Sinatra's "kind" of town, but 'Frisco is George Lucas' town -- on either side of the Golden Gate Bridge, at least.
COMIC CON: Little stands still in new film version (Jul. 25, 2008)
SAN DIEGO -- "Klaatu Barada Nikto." But Keanu?
COMIC CON: Where nerds and geeks rule (Jul. 24, 2008)
SAN DIEGO -- It sounds like a comic-book origin: puny gathering gets blasted by buzz and transforms into a hip Hollywood titan.
MOVIES: Oh, Brothers! (Jul. 20, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- This is the story of a media conference where straight answers are as scarce as cashews in a can of no-name mixed nuts. And speaking of nuts ...
You'll die laughing (Jul. 20, 2008)
Why is the Screen Actors Guild threatening to strike over the potential of future Internet revenues? Look no further than Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's website, Funny Or Die -- exhibit A for Hollywood's multimedia future.
FILM: Imagine that (Jul. 8, 2008)
And Ugly Naked Guy thought he'd never work again.
Hollywood playing superhero to comics (Jul. 4, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- It was a conspiracy worthy of any arch-villain: Declining sales, aging fans and an explosion of digitally driven entertainment options.
Get Smarter (Jun. 15, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- For those of you who don't know the cone of silence from Coneheads, here's a primer on the 1960s Get Smart television series before it gets recycled on the big screen this Friday:
Where there's a will, there's HATHAWAY (Jun. 15, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Anne Hathaway was on a covert mission of her own when she snagged the sought-after role of sleek, slinky Agent 99 in this Friday's Get Smart upgrade.
MOVIES: Will Hulk be a smash hit? (Jun. 8, 2008)
Splitting his purple pants is the least of the Hulk's worries as he rampages back into theatres this Friday.
Credible Hulk: Facts on our fave green giant (Jun. 8, 2008)
BORN: May 1962 in the aptly titled The Incredible Hulk #1.
It's not easy being green (Jun. 8, 2008)
Few comic-book characters have undergone as many transformations as the Hulk and his "puny human" alter-ego Bruce Banner.
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New This Week
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Amal
KIRKLAND: A simple tale of a complex man
Bangkok Dangerous
No review; Synopsis only.
Fly Me to the Moon
BRAUN: Cool 3-D tech caught in flytrap of weak story
Seasons
No review; Synopsis only.
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Features
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IN TORONTO: Toronto fest loses democratic nature (Sep. 6, 2008)
The Toronto International Film Festival is no longer the people's festival. Co-founder Dusty Cohl would be appalled. His widow Joan Cohl certainly is.
IN TORONTO: A family affair (Sep. 5, 2008)
Paul Gross grew up in a Canadian military family hearing tragic but vivid stories about the First World War from his maternal grandfather.
DVDS: Married Life marvellous (Sep. 5, 2008)
If most summer movies are designed to tease and please, there are always exceptions. We look at the serious side of recent summer fare on DVD.
A Hollywood 'must-stop' (Sep. 3, 2008)
If campaigns are fought one skirmish at a time, consider the Toronto International Film Festival ground zero for next year's Oscar race.
DVDS: Back in the saddle (Aug. 31, 2008)
As a movie genre, the western has faded into our sepia-toned memory banks. Only occasionally is the genre revived by films that shoot with the calibre of the recent Jesse James opus.
Director of Babylon A.D. says sci-fi thriller 'terrible' (Aug. 29, 2008)
Because it didn't screen for critics, we can't tell you Babylon A.D. is a terrible movie.
Huron Market Place the last of the $3 movie theatres (Aug. 28, 2008)
The lights will dim at London's Huron Market Place Theatre for the last time next week.
Couldn't Picket Fence him in (Aug. 28, 2008)
NEW YORK -- Before Don Cheadle was chumming around with the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon in the Ocean's films or picking up an Oscar nod for Hotel Rwanda, he starred as District Attorney John Littleton on the TV series Picket Fences from 1993-1995.
Traitor is his business (Aug. 28, 2008)
NEW YORK -- Don Cheadle, whose latest film is the international espionage thriller Traitor, and the Bourne series star Matt Damon currently have a running joke about their respective spy roles.
Coogan's bluff (Aug. 26, 2008)
This is the summer of Steve Coogan.
DVDS: Girls, like, so get it (Aug. 24, 2008)
It is obvious I am not now, nor have I ever been, a teenaged girl, although I have been known to cry at emotional movies.
Oscars need a special Knight (Aug. 24, 2008)
Saving Gotham City was a minor feat compared to the next task confronting Hollywood's dark knight: Rescuing the Oscars from ratings oblivion.
Here comes the Rainn again (Aug. 21, 2008)
Actor Rainn Wilson was like a lot of kids growing up with dreams of stardom and starting his own rock and roll band.
Out of Office reply (Aug. 21, 2008)
Rainn Wilson says the response in the early screenings of The Rocker have been great but he's found the question-and-answer sessions in select cities afterward to be a bit confusing.
MOVIES: Lovin' every minute of it (Aug. 21, 2008)
With the film The Rocker being a good gateway for music discussion, Rainn Wilson joked that he was presenting Loverboy with their Lifetime Achievement Awards at the MuchMusic Video Awards, which took place in mid-June.
Film stars set to shine in Toronto (Aug. 20, 2008)
Movies profiling everyone from Che Guevara to LeBron James.
Singer finds a lot to draw on in her history (Aug. 19, 2008)
As an immigrant child growing up in Canada, Karen David was bullied and made to feel awkward because she was so different from "the norm" in school. Now her complex heritage is a remarkable asset she uses in her music, as well as in film and TV work.
DVDS: Much made of David (Aug. 19, 2008)
Karen David's father peeked at the poster for The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior -- his daughter's first starring role --and turned shy and awkward.
Original beauty hits big screen (Aug. 19, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Rumer Willis has much to be grateful for.
As the daughter of stars, Rumer has it (Aug. 19, 2008)
Although Rumer Willis has had bit roles in a few of her parents' movies (Demi Moore's Striptease and Bruce Willis's the Whole Nine Yards), most of her experience has been on the outside looking in.
Allen says actor angst wasted and pointless (Aug. 18, 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Woody Allen thinks it's funny that so many great actors take their craft so seriously.
DVDS: Fine China (Aug. 17, 2008)
China is mounting a sometimes spectacular Olympic Games in Beijing. The pride of a complex, conflicted nation is at stake.
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